The end of International Week

The last day of racing for international week had wind from the normal southwest direction and was again around 12 knots. The first race took a while to get going as the tide was ebbing and pushing the boats over the start line too early. After 4 attempts at a start, including a general recall under a black flag (if you get caught over early you can't race), we finally got the race going. We nailed the start and went to the left side of the course. We worked our way up the left side and rounded the windward mark in the 30-35 range. We then went low on the first reach and picked up around 10 boats as we were able to sail a hotter angle and used the tide current to push us up to the mark. We then were fighting for a top 20 position and battled it out with a couple of the top boats in the next reaching leg. We managed to hold our own for the most part. The next upwind we went to the left side again and managed to hold our position and gap out on the boats behind us a bit. We then had a pretty uneventful last 2 legs and finished a very respectable 23rd. Another great result.

The final race of the regatta wasn't as good. We didn't have a good start but we managed to have a good first leg upwind that got us back in the middle of the pack. We then struggled downwind and lost a lot of boats by getting sucked high on the 2nd reach. We were getting a little frustrated at this point and continued our march to the back of the fleet. We ended up 44th which isn't too bad, considering.

Overall I am very pleased with how we did this week. 35th overall is very respectable but if we can get rid of the 40+ finishes we can move up hopefully. Next week will be tougher but will be equally as fun.

This is the link for the Results